This was a full eight years before the museum of modern art opened in New York, making the Phillips Collection America's first modern-art museum.

这时距离现代艺术博物馆在纽约揭幕还有整整八年，这就使得菲利普收藏成为美国第一家现代艺术博物馆。

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From about age eleven, I built a collection of railroad timetables from all over the country. I'd spend hours memorizing the routes and the names of towns in the forty-eight states.

大约是从11岁起，我开始收集全国各地的铁路时刻表，花很多时间去记四十八个州的路线和各镇名称。

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The collection was begun in 1824, with the purchase of thirty-eight pictures.

这些收藏缘起于1824年收购得来的三十八幅绘画作品。

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The Chernobyl Forum -- a collection of eight U.N. agencies, including the International Atomic Energy Agency -- published a report in 2005 examining, among other things, the environmental legacy of the disaster.

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"Someone made a (fashion) collection called 'Eight Seconds' because they say it takes eight seconds to make a decision, " she said.

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